And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
JOHN STEINBECKWhat good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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